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We would like to welcome Pree Sareen to the lab.
- February 03, 2015
We would like to welcome Dan Lajoie to the lab.
- November 03, 2014Source: Current Biology
We would like to announce Michael Kunst's new paper Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Neurons Mediate Sleep-Specific Circadian Output in Drosophila
- October 10, 2014Source: NIH RePORTER
We would like to announce the award of a grant Synaptic Microcircuits Controlling Sleep
- June 27, 2014
We would like to welcome Xin Jin to the lab.
- April 21, 2014
Congratulations to Alex Buhimschi, who received a Yale College Freshman Summer Research Fellowship to support him in the lab this summer!
- April 01, 2014
Congratulations to Li Yan McCurdy for her NSF graduate fellowship!
- April 01, 2014
Congratulations to rotating student Karl Barber, who also has been awarded an NSF graduate fellowship!
- February 16, 2014
Screening more than 100 spider toxins, Yale researchers identified a protein from the venom of the Peruvian green velvet tarantula that blunts activity in pain-transmitting neurons. The findings, reported in the March 3 issue of the journal Current Biology, show the new screening method used by the scientists has the potential to search millions of different spider toxins for safe pain-killing drugs and therapies.
- February 16, 2014Source: The New York Times
"Toxineering," a new method developed by investigators at the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale, may be used to screen millions of spider toxins for safe pain-killing drugs and therapies. With it, Michael Nitabach and his colleagues have identified a protein from the venom of the Peruvian green velvet tarantula that targets an ion channel linked to neuropathic pain.